Komplete and/or Kontakt 8 Memory Leak?

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  • Ongey
    Ongey Member Posts: 24 Member

    Hi @FilmCompos3r & all. I did a test with four instruments, all non-Kontakt, all in Komplete Kontrol containers - two Spitfires, an Applied Acoustics instrument, and good old Arturia Pigments. None of them exhibited any memory leak issue / continual RAM increase after just opening and closing. So, the theory is that yes, maybe this is to do with Kontakt instruments in KK. To reiterate, no problem with using Kontakt 7.

    I don't use Kontakt because I want to utilize my KK S61 MK3 keyboard - to be honest, I have some regrets about this quite expensive purchase. It's lovely, but the software has suffered with bugs all year (early in the year it was unusable with Studio One, but credit to NI's developers, who took notice after enough people reported the problem, and then investigated and fixed. Let's hope they can do something about this too.

  • Ongey
    Ongey Member Posts: 24 Member

    Hi folks, I guess there's not going to be any progress on this issue without support calls. In the meantime, I've generally been ok with Kontakt 8 - it's faster, takes less memory, and most of all, releases it and doesn't start grabbing more (and more etc). Of course, only KK can work with non-Kontakt instruments, but in many cases, you might just use the instrument's own software (e.g. pigments). Not particularly happy with this expensive and buggy software / hardware, but I guess nothing in this inter-communicating world of disparate music gear is perfect…

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